Chapter 16

Nyla

That was the last straw for me. I knew all the blood rushed to my face and I was flushed. I politely shoved from the table, got up, grabbed my clutch and got the fuck out of there.

"After all that shit he just put me through over a fucking piece of jewelry and Aberto, he goes and disrespects me with his wife?!"

Storming out of the ballroom, not even concerned with my coat in the middle of a Chicago winter, I went and hailed a taxi. Fuck Heinrich and his explanations.

Xavier was at the door, which made me feel ten times better. I needed him. He came and opened the door and before he could reach for me I threw my arms around him. I couldn't explain the jealousy that came over me, when I watched Heinrich with his large hands on the small of her back.

In the lobby still full of Heinrich's seed, I sat talking to Xavier about tonight's events, leaving out the dirty details of how Heinrich took me in the vacant room.

"You know I love you Nyla, but you overreacted." He said sitting next to me in the lobby on the barely used couch.

"She's his ex-wife and who did he show up with?" he said as he stroked my shoulder. ‘EX-wife’..that detail totally slipped my mind. I held my head on his shoulder with his chin nuzzled on my hair.

What he was saying was true but when you see red, you're not very rational. I was very irrational for leaving him with an empty plus one seat, leaving her more time with his hand on her back.

"Damn if he does, damn if he doesn't." I sat up giving him the death glare, as I pulled my arms up to my chest in defense.

"Whose brother are you? Mine or his?"

Xavier returned my stare. "He didn't have to invite you. Just think of how it would've felt if you would have seen him in a picture with her, as his date?" I was about to kill him from the thought of it.

"You can stare all you want, right is right and wrong is wrong."

"Oh, so I'm wrong?" I stood up and he followed me with his eyes.

"As your brother I'm not going to sugar coat shit just to make you feel better. You have me in a tough ass position as it is." I must have looked puzzled because he began putting the pieces together for me.

"You do realize that Clover is his brother and we're all supposed to be family? But I have to keep this secret from him. Shit eats me up, Nyla. We're not like you and Heinric. We want to share our secrets and our past. Clover has been nothing but an open book to me, but I'm holding your secret, while baring my own." I saw the pain on his face as he finished his speech.

"Goodnight X, the door will be open if you want to come sleep." I said while turning on my heels.

"No. Clove will be here soon, and you're welcome." I stopped in my tracks and turned towards him.

"For what?" he rolled his eyes before answering.

"I took this shift because Clover wanted to go with his brother and this mystery woman tonight." He went outside to cool off, I'd pissed off yet another man tonight. "Just fucking great." I thought as I entered the elevator.

The way I disobeyed him was going to get me punished for sure. The thought sent my heart rate up and my chest became flushed, causing me to clench my thighs together, and my throbbing pussy was dripping at the thought of punishment.

I needed to wash tonight off of me. I let everything marinate and I was seeing red. I was pissed and I didn't owe anyone an explanation.

I undressed at the door performing my ritual, but was startled by iPhone's tune coming through my quiet loft, causing my heart to beat uncontrollably.

I looked at the screen and immediately winced. I must've really pissed him off for him to call me. I reluctantly swiped right to answer. "Hello?"

"Nyla, where the fuck are you!?"

"I'm home. I didn't feel like watching you and the wife pawing each other, RIGHT AFTER you FUCKED me."

He took a deep breath, from relief or sheer outrage, I wasn't sure. In a calm collected voice he simply said, "Nyla, I will not discuss this with you tonight. Be at my home tomorrow EARLY. I don't care what excuse you give my brother. I want you at my home PRECISELY at 3:00pm. Not a moment later, or there will be consequences."

He hung up the phone without even allowing me to respond. "Well that was fucking RUDE." I quietly thought to myself.

"Fuck you, Heinrich!" I screamed while walking to my bedroom.

"Who does he think he is?" I thought to myself frozen in place. How is it possible that he can have me this worked up? I don't really give a fuck. OK, maybe I give one fuck but that's all he gets from me. Just one.

"Shit. How will I get to him by 3 o'clock?" I placed one hand around my stomach holding myself while my other hand was on my head in worry.

He could wait all he wanted, I'm not showing up. I paced the floor possibly twenty times. At first shaking my head in disbelief at the night, and then I cradled my head with both hands.

I took a deep breath and decided I'm going, but only because I want to hear what lame ass excuse he's going to come up with. Then I will tell him to shove it up his ass and be done with him.

"Yeah that's what I'll do." I said in the mirror, I was trying to convince someone but I was sure no one would buy it.